On the occasion of his 60th birthday, Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Egon Stahl donated a medal, a document and a monetary prize in order to recognize and promote young scientists working in the field of Pharmacognosy (Pharmaceutical Biology) and Analytical Phytochemistry.
As a rule, the silver medal and an award of € 3,000 should be awarded to scientists up to the age of about forty, who have published outstanding scientific work during the years following their graduation.
List of Award-Winners
1985
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Franz (silver)
1988
Dr. Beat Maier (silver)
1989
Dr. Lutz Heide (silver)
1990
Dr. Rudolf Bauer (silver)
1992
Dr. Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey (silver)
1993
Dr. Gabriele König (silver)
1995
Dr. R. van der Heijden (silver)
1996
Dr. Toni M. Kutchan (silver)
1997
Dr. Dieter H. Paper, Dr. Markus Veit (silver)
2025: Gianluigi Lauro
My research focuses on the use of computational chemistry to analyze the structure and biological activity of organic compounds that interact with macromolecules involved in physiological and pathological processes. A central goal of my work is to develop advanced methods for accelerate the determination of the relative and absolute configuration of natural, synthetic, and semi-synthetic compounds, and identifying their biological targets through novel techniques such as in silico-based Inverse Virtual Screening approach.
I aim to integrate quantum chemistry methods, machine learning, and molecular databases to accelerate drug discovery and optimize chemical biology research. With the continuous growth of computational power, my research aims to improve the rapid and precise identification of molecules with therapeutic potential, particularly in the field of natural products, known for their pharmacological value.
2023: Bianka Siewert
The Egon Stahl Award in Silver is awarded by GA Society to young scientists, who have published outstanding scientific work during the years following their graduation. Bianka Siewert, post doctoral researcher at the Center for Chemistry and Biomedicine of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, represents these preconditions in an ideal way, as she and her team, while studying Basidiomycetes fungi and the wide variety of pigments that give their fruiting bodies a colourful appearance, revealed a hidden function and new pharmaceutical opportunity of these pigments, photochemical defence: Activated by a ray of light, fungal pigments turn into powerful bullets destroying pathogens as well as malignant cancer cells.
2021: Dr. Luiz Carlos Klein Júnior
The prestigious Egon Stahl-Award 2021 in Silver is bestowed to Dr. Luiz Carlos Klein Júnior from Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Brazil, in recognition of his valuable contributions to pharmaceutical biology and analytical phytochemistry, in particular his research related to chemometrics and chromatography.
2019: Dr. Samad Nejad Ebrahimi
The Society for medicinal plant and natural product research has pleasure in dedicating the Egon Stahl-Award 2019 with Silver Medal to Prof. Dr. Samad Nejad Ebrahimi for his research on searching for new potent drug candidates against neglected protozoal diseases, natural antimicrobial and cytotoxic compounds from Iranian medicinal plants.
2017: Dr. Attila Hunyadi
The Egon Stahl Award 2017 with the silver medal has been bestowed to Prof. Dr. Attila Hunyadi from the University of Szeged, Hungary, in recognition of his valuable contributions to pharmacognosy, pharmacology and analytical phytochemistry, in particular his studies in natural and semisynthetic ecdysteroids and proto-flavonoids, having strong chemo-sensitizing activity in cancers cell lines.
2015: Dr. Maria Halabalaki
The Society for Medicinal Plants and Natural Products Research presented the Egon Stahl Award 2015 in silver to Dr. Maria Halabalaki, from University of Athens as regognition of her contribution in LC-MS and NMR-based metabolomic studies, and in LC-MS based metabonomic characterization of molecular targets and pathways affected by natural products.
2013: Prof. Dr. Sandra Apers
The Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research presented the Egon Stahl Award 2013 with the silver medal to Prof. Dr. Sandra Apers, University of Aantwerp, Belgium, in recognition of her excellent research in the fields of isolation, structure elucidation and bioactivity of natural products, as well as analysis and quality control of herbal drugs.
2009: Dr. Prokopios Magiatis
The GA presents the Egon Stahl-Award 2009 with the silver medal to Dr. Prokopios Magiatis in recognition of his highly valuable contributions to pharmacognosy, pharmaceutical biology and analytical phytochemistry, in particular by his outstanding contributions to natural lead compounds and their synthesis and aspects of molecular pharmacology.
2007: Prof. Dr. Alessandra Braca
The Egon Stahl-Award 2007 with the silver medal has been awarded to Prof. Dr. Alessandra Braca, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry and Biopharmaceutics, University of Pisa, Italy, in recognition of her highly valuable contributions to pharmacognosy and analytical phytochemistry, in particular by her outstanding phytochemical and pharmacological studies in the field of natural products with biological, pharmacological and chemotaxonomic interest.
2005: Prof. Dr. Deniz Tasdemir
The Egon Stahl-Award 2005 with the silver medal has been awarded to Prof. Dr. Deniz Tasdemir, Institut of Organic Chemistry of the University of Zürich, Switzerland, in recognition of her highly valuable contributions to pharmacognosy (pharmaceutical biology) and analytical phytochemistry, in particular by her outstanding phytochemical and pharmacological studies in the field of plant and marine natural products against malaria and cancer.
2003: PD Dr. Jörg Heilmann
The Society for Medicinal Plant Research presents the Egon Stahl-Award 2003 with the silver medal to PD Dr. Jörg Heilmann in recognition of his valuable contributions to pharmacognosy (pharmaceutical biology) and analytical phytochemistry, in particular by his outstanding studies in the fields of structure elucidation, development of new bioassays on a cellular level, as well as on pharmacokinetic and drug delivery studies.
2002: Dr. Anna Rita Bilia
The Egon Stahl-Award 2002 with the silver medal has been awarded to Dr. Anna Rita Bilia, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Florence, Italy, in recognition of her valuable contributions to pharmacognosy (pharmaceutical biology) and analytical phytochemistry, in particular by her outstanding and innovative interdisciplinary studies on the quality control of herbal medicinal products.
2001: Dr. Michael Keusgen
The Egon-Stahl Prize in silver has been awarded to Priv.-Doz. Dr Michael Keusgen, Bonn, in recognition of his outstanding studies on the cysteine sulfoxides in Allium species using a biosensor for their quantitative determination enabling a high-throughput of samples.
2000: Dr. Thomas J. Schmidt
The Egon-Stahl-Prize in silver has been awarded to PD Dr Thomas J. Schmidt, Düsseldorf, for his habilitation work on sesquiterpene lactones from Asteraceae and Illiciaceae. more…
